Jersey sex abuse case man charged

Police have charged a 45-year-old man over allegations of sexual abuse relating to the Haut de la Garenne former children's home on Jersey.

Michael Aubin, who was born in Jersey and lives in Southampton, Hampshire, was arrested in Britain by Jersey officers on Thursday.

He will appear before the Magistrate in Jersey charged with one count against a boy and two counts of indecent assault against two other boys.

The charges relate to three separate children and are alleged to have been committed between 1977 and 1980. A Jersey Police spokesperson said it was possible that further charges may follow.

A Jersey Police spokeswoman said he was the third man to be arrested in connection with the ongoing historical abuse inquiry.

Gordon Claude Wateridge, 76, originally from Croydon, south London, has been charged with three offences of indecent assault on girls under 16 between 1969 and 1979.

Claude Donnelly, 68, of St Brelade, has been charged with raping and sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl on Jersey between 1971 and 1974. Neither man has entered a plea.

Detectives have said new tests had proved "beyond doubt" that the remains of more than one child have been found at Haut de la Garenne.

Expert examination of five teeth unearthed in a cellar at the former children's home over the last week revealed that most had come out after death and from at least two sources. The context of the finds suggests that the teeth were put in the cellar after the 1940s.

Haut de la Garenne became the centre of the historic abuse inquiry in February. Scores of people have come forward claiming they were abused at the home. Some talked of underground punishment rooms where they said they were drugged, raped and beaten.